Bonus: Tom Brokaw Remembers Watergate

Article II: Inside Impeachment

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🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, host Steve Kornacki interviews Tom Brokaw, who went to Washington as NBC News White House Correspondent in the summer of 1973, a year before Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. Brokaw discusses his time covering the fall of President Nixon and the parallels to today, as the nation watches the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump unfold. Tom Brokaw is a Senior Correspondent for NBC and the author of a new book, The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate. Key Figures H.R. “Bob” Haldeman - White House Chief of Staff, 1969 - 1973 John Erlichman - White House Domestic Affairs Advisor, 1969 - 1973 John Mitchell - US Attorney General, 1969 - 1972 Howard Baker - Republican Senator from Tennessee Pat Buchanan – Special Assistant to President Nixon Al Haig - White House Chief of Staff, 1973 - 1974 For a transcript, please visit https://www.nbcnews.com/articletwo.

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0:00.0	Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution.
0:15.0	There is a gap in another presidential tape in a conversation in March 1973 between
0:19.8	President Nixon and John Erlichman.
0:21.5	And just say, state they're out of this.
0:25.0	America needs a full-time president and a full-time Congress,
0:31.0	particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.
0:35.0	Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
0:43.0	From NBC News, this is Article 2,
0:47.0	Inside Impeachment.
0:48.0	I'm Steve Kurnaki.
0:49.0	Today is Saturday, November 16th, and we're bringing you a special bonus episode today and this one really is special.
0:56.4	Sometimes, you know, I will pick up a book, I'll read a few pages, I'll put it down, I'll tell myself I'm going to get back to it later and then of course I never end up doing that.
1:04.1	That actually happens with a lot of books I try to read or books that I tell myself I should be reading.
1:09.2	But it is not what happened when I got a copy of the book whose author I am about to talk with.
1:14.8	The Fall of Richard Nixon, a reporter remembers Watergate, is, as you might guess from the title,
1:19.9	the story of the final year of Richard Nixon's presidency. It's got a narrator that we all
1:24.9	know very well. Tom broke all NBC news, Washington. Watergate was the story that
1:30.0	made him a household name to millions of Americans.
1:33.1	Tom was a rising star at NBC in the early 1970s
1:36.5	and with a scandal heating up,
1:38.0	he became NBC's White House correspondent
1:40.1	in the summer of 73.
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